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iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple

By | March 9, 2011, 10:37am PST

Summary: If you’ve got an iPhone, iPad of iPod touch, it’s update time!

If you’ve got an iPhone, iPad of iPod touch, it’s update time!

So attach your iDevice to iTunes and start upgrading!

This update contains new features and improvements, including the following:

• Personal Hotspot*
  - Share iPhone 4 mobile data connection with up to 5
devices (combination of up to 3 Wi-Fi, 3 Bluetooth,
and 1 USB)
• iTunes Home Sharing
  - Play music, films and TV shows from a shared iTunes
library on a Mac or PC (requires iTunes 10.2)
• New AirPlay features**
  - Play videos from the Photos app including the Camera
Roll album, iTunes previews, enabled third-party apps
and websites on Apple TV
  - Play slideshows from Photos on Apple TV using
transitions available on Apple TV
• Faster Safari performance with Apple Nitro JavaScript
engine
• HD video out using the Apple Digital AV Adapter***
  - View 720p HD videos from Videos app, iPod app,
Photos, YouTube, Safari, Keynote and enabled
third-party apps on an HDMI display
• Ping features
  - Push notifications for comments and follow requests
  - Post and Like songs directly from the Now Playing
screen
  - Parental controls
• New Settings
  - Messages setting for number of times to repeat an
alert
  - iPad side switch setting to lock screen rotation or mute
audio notifications and sound effects
• Single-tap conference-call dialling with a pause to send
a passcode
• Bug fixes

Products compatible with this software update:
• iPhone 4 (GSM model)
• iPhone 3GS
• iPad
• iPod touch (4th generation)
• iPod touch (3rd generation)

*Requires iPhone 4 with tethering data plan
**Requires Apple TV (2nd generation) running software
version 4.2 or later
***iPhone 4, iPad, iPod touch (4th generation)

For information on the security content of this update, please visit:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

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Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted over a decade to helping users get the most from technology -- whether that be by learning to program, building a PC from a pile of parts, or helping them get the most from their new MP3 player or digital camera.

Adrian has authored/co-authored technical books on a variety of topics, ranging from programming to building and maintaining PCs. His most recent books include "Build the Ultimate Custom PC", "Beginning Programming" and "The PC Doctor's Fix It Yourself Guide". He has also written training manuals that have been used by a number of Fortune 500 companies.

Adrian also runs a popular blog under the name The PC Doctor, where he covers a range of computer-related topics -- from security to repairing and upgrading.

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MrElectrifyer Updated - 12th Mar 2011
Nothing new for the jailbroken iDevices.

Keep it up steve job's, you and crApple are 1/97th way there to copying all the tweaks from the Hacker's world (the jailbreak community) into the official world -_- zZ
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Ping features?
use_what_works_4_U 9th Mar 2011
The only feature I'd like to see for Ping is a headstone.
Seriously, has anyone found this "social feature" to be useful or desirable in any way?
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
kenosha77a 9th Mar 2011
@macadam

No.
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
MrElectrifyer 12th Mar 2011
@macadam NOT A SINGLE BIT, but, since steve job's liked it, hundreds of others might like it, so crApple added it to iTunes.
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
Droid101 Updated - 9th Mar 2011
And when it breaks the old 3GS iPhones, will anyone complain? No! Because Jobs wants you to upgrade!
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
Brick Tamland Updated - 9th Mar 2011
@Droid101 No one is forcing you to upgrade. You can decline it.

Oh, and when there's 30 different flavors of Android out there, which one will you choose? Oh wait, there already are.
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Apple = ONE Device One OS w/ Many Versions....
Monarky Updated - 9th Mar 2011
@Brick Tamland Google Android = Many Devices with ONE OS! ...so naturally you have different versions. But I don't see that stopping Adobe FLASH cross platform (wrongly called fragmented) now running on near every Mobile Device (except Apple's) as well as every Desktop on the Planet.

Now with their next generation "3D Molehill API" release of FLASH 11.... it's a whole new ball game, with the most prolific runtime in the planet's Cyberspace running fully GPU accelerated with FULL Desktop Games and Applications from the Web. FLASH (not HTML5) has the only integrated secure web transaction process and DRM for content distribution on the Web. Until HTML can boast having these two features, it's hardware acceleration is worthless for developers to see returns. That's why Apple is touting HTML..... they don't see it as a threat to their App Store business and FLASH's overwhelming presence and use by developers and web sites presents the greatest threat to their closed Business Model!

Remember "3D Molehill" enabled FLASH 11 is just around the corner from being used by a massive force of content developers to unleash Desktop Goodness from the Web!!! grin

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/incubator/features/molehill.html

This is precisely why Apple will no doubt be forced to allow FLASH in it's future. Otherwise..... all of these competitors running on the actual 3D Web Future will bury them in their AOL Hell Closed Coffin Network!!!
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
kenosha77a Updated - 9th Mar 2011
Just installed iOS 4.3 on my iPad. Really enjoying the updated Safari browser. (nice speed bump)

The first thing I did was return the screen lock functionality back to the hardware switch. Finally.
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
aep528 9th Mar 2011
Yawn. There's nothing in there that makes me want to go through the pain of updating my iPod Touch. Not sure I would even update an iPhone if I had one. I really don't understand the need for a personal hot spot - are there really that many people who need to be connected all of the time and can't find WiFI?
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
non-biased 9th Mar 2011
@aep528 Go through the pain of updating? What pain are you talking about? You plug it in, check for updates, accept terms and let it do it's thing? Updating my iPhone right now with no pain what so ever. I used to have a WiFi hotspot app for my jailbroken 3G and it was great. Very handy to get a connection for other devices where WiFi wasn't available such as in the car. Don't think I will pay AT&T for this feature if they even allow it but nice to have the option.

What happened to the 4 and 5 finger gestures?
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
kenosha77a 9th Mar 2011
@non-biased About two weeks after the news of additional multitouch functionality was revealed in a beta release, those features were pulled from subsequent beta releases.

I, too, was looking forward to using those hand gestures on my iPad. There was speculation that those gestures would "break" certain applications.
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
paul2011 9th Mar 2011
Does it fix iPhone bluetooth problems?
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tqarob Updated - 11th Mar 2011
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RE: iOS 4.3 available for download from Apple
aolbites 10th Mar 2011
I updated my iPhone 4 and things seem to be running the same as before. Nothing noticed that's too amazing.

On a sidenote, I updated my 3rd gen 64 GB Touch and it bricked it. Tried multiple things to get it running again and nothing seems to be working...awesome Apple...awesome...
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Yawwwnnnnnn zzZZZ
MrElectrifyer Updated - 12th Mar 2011
Nothing new for the jailbroken iDevices.

Keep it up steve job's, you and crApple are 1/97th way there to copying all the tweaks from the Hacker's world (the jailbreak community) into the official world -_- zZ

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